An interview with Carla Ortiz about Bolivia's Oscar entry Forgotten

An interview with Carla Ortiz about Bolivia's Oscar entry Forgotten
By Bijan Tehrani 11/18/2014 17:14:00

During the 70’s, under the so-called “Operation Condor" military dictatorships in Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay took away all possibilities for freedom and peace, carrying out the worst bloodshed and painful era in the modern history of these countries.
The story takes place in Bolivia when JOSE a decorated Condor General has a heart attack and looks for redemption by telling the dark secrets of his past to his only son.

JOSE takes us on a journey through Operation Condor to understand the factual scenarios created by these military regimes, introducing us to the protagonists from which their lives were stolen. Honor, loss and love, become victims of a plan in which betrayal is the ultimate sacrifice. A story that remembers those we thought "Forgotten".

CARLA ORTIZ, producer and star of Bolivia's entry for Foreign Language Oscar, "FORGOTTEN" ("OLVIDADOS&quot . Directed by Carlos Bolado, "FORGOTTEN" is an unbelievably powerful film framed around Operation Condor, the system of military repression coordinated by the dictators of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay in the '70s during one of the worst of dictatorships in South America. The movie, which has set records and earned rave reviews throughout South America, focuses on a decorated Condor General who has a heart attack and looks for redemption by telling the dark secrets of his past to his only son. Ortiz is one of the few women producers with a Foreign Language entry in what was singled out from a crowded field as exceptional by the Bolivian Minister of Culture Pablo Groux. The film's added value -- besides its stunning artistic integrity -- is its allegiance to the history of the contentious era rarely covered effectively cinematically. Although Argentina and Chile have produced films about the era of dictatorships, "Forgotten" is the first time that any motion picture has specifically addressed Operation Condor with honesty and authenticity. (112 mines.)

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